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What Working at Restaurants Can Teach Writers

What Working at Restaurants Can Teach Writers

Ethan Joella on Wanting to Open an Eatery, Teenage Jobs, and the Similarities Between Serving Customers and Readers

By Ethan Joella | July 2, 2024

Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies

Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies

Lauren Aliza Green Reconsiders Her Abandonment of the Violin

By Lauren Aliza Green | July 2, 2024

Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

Dorinda Wegener on Channeling Her Creative Empathy and Curiosity Into the Medical Field

By Dorinda Wegener | July 1, 2024

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

Simon Wu: “Objects were made to live multiple lives, so that our life—this life, not the next one—would be perfect.”

By Simon Wu | July 1, 2024

Beauty in Discomfort: In Defense of the Trauma Narrative

Beauty in Discomfort: In Defense of the Trauma Narrative

Emily Usher on the Enduring Importance of Writing About Pain

By Emily Usher | June 28, 2024

Helen Fielding on <em>Bridget Jones</em> and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

Considering the Place of the Confessional Narrative in the Literary Landscape on the Book's 25th Anniversary

By Helen Fielding | June 26, 2024

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Tracy O’Neill on Searching For Her Birth Mother During a Pandemic

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“I wanted her, wanted everything, and all of her was missing.”

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Rachel Zimmerman on an Invaluable Literary Friendship Cut Short By Cancer

By Rachel Zimmerman | June 25, 2024

Reading Jill Ciment’s <em>Consent</em> As a Former Teenage Bride

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Rafia Zakaria Considers Context, Choices and Consequences Across Eras and Cultures

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

The Gaps Filled by Fiction: On Victoria Amelina’s <em>Dom’s Dream Kingdom</em>

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Héctor Abad Remembers a Rising Star of Ukrainian Literature Killed by Putin’s War

By Héctor Abad | June 24, 2024

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's <em>Stay Here with Me</em>

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's Stay Here with Me

"It is contrary, it cuts against the grain, including the grain of Olmstead’s own work."

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Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

Priyanka Mattoo on the Complexities of Living in a Multicultural Family

By Priyanka Mattoo | June 18, 2024

Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

“I wanted something that I could claim as my own, something steeped in who I was as a person.”

By Alex DiFrancesco | June 18, 2024

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